Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1942-1945
Hans Bellmer. The doll 1935
The actress Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly last summer
André Masson. The earth 1939
André Masson. The earth 1939
Hans Bellmer. Descending nude 1956. Oil on canvas
« I can share the integrity of my soul, but never ask me to be your compromise doll. I have too much radical passion inside me. » (DantéBéa)
Hans Bellmer. Study for the doll’s games 1938
Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1943
Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1953. Ink, gouache and pencil on paper
Hans Bellmer. The pregnant doll 1937
Hans Bellmer. Study for The doll
Hans Bellmer. Scéne érotique 1980
Hans Bellmer. Scéne érotique 1980
Hans Bellmer. Organes génitaux rouges 1946
Hans Bellmer. L’assiette
Hans Bellmer. La croix gamahuchée 1946
Hans Bellmer. La bicyclette 1946
Hans Bellmer. Le cube 1944
Egon Schiele. Vienna Workshop’s postcard, undated
« Love is like the year, its most beautiful season is its spring.
All is still promises and flowers. » (Ernest Legouvé)
Josef Breitenbach. Electric back 1949
Josef Breitenbach. Electric back 1949
Josef Breitenbach. Patricia 1942
Josef Breitenbach. Annabella 1935
Josef Breitenbach. Bird 1948. Photogram
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1910
Karl Schenker. The actress Erna Morena 1914
« And I know of a rose that is unique in the world, which exists nowhere else except on my planet. »(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman in a green shirt 1913
« My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. »(Albert Camus)
Tribute to All the souls from Paul Klee
« It may not be too late we must still try
To live pushes aside the threads of the rain the wild wind
Comes like a horse that gets up what a beauty
You have probably crumpled the river but everything flows
Since the black waters of childhood
Your sorrow
Your rage you must throw everything in the sewers and bathe
Naked in the leaves of the sky wrapped in clouds
You must fly like an angel laugh sing and laugh
Pass through all the rooms write a poem
That you will read on all the roads in all the beds
A poem that gives a thousand lives Don’t give up
Hope
An abandonment is a tree that dies. « (Alain Duault)
Paul Klee. The path into the blue 1934
Egon Schiele. Pregnant woman 1910
H. Armstrong Roberts. Woman lying with head down 1920s
« One night I fall asleep with him
Though I know we aren’t allowed to
And I feel the fever burning inside me
Without having a shadow of remorse
And the dawn brings me to sleep
I do not want the sun to come
When I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him
I’ve lost my mind a little
And I’m no longer from here
Oh! I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet
When he hugs me close against him
When I feel that I fit in his life
I pray for fate to pull me through
I pray for the devil to take me
And anxiety turns its face towards me
And makes me speak its language
But when I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him
I’ve lost my mind a little
And I’m no longer from here. No I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet. » (Véronique Sanson)
H. Armstrong Roberts. Sunset silhouette 1920s
« The grace of novelty is to love what the flower is to fruit: it gives it a luster that fades easily and never returns. » (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Unidentified photographer. Reclining woman smoking 1870-1890
Unidentified photographer. Seated nude woman smoking 1920s
Unidentified photographer. Woman smoking 1920s
Alexander Binder. The actress Marcella Albani holding a cigarette 1927
The actress Georgia Lind smoking 1928
Nadejda de Braganza holding a long cigarette holder 1929
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman with a grey shirt 1913
Egon Schiele. Female torso, back view 1913
Josep Masana. Reclining maja 1920-1940. Flexichrome
Josep Masana. Seated maja 1920-1940. Flexichrome
Josep Masana. Untitled 1920s
Josep Masana. Salomé 1920-1940
Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940
Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940
Josep Masana. Sinkhole 1920s
Josep Masana. The actress Rosita Rodrigo
Josep Masana. Woman in front of the mirror 1920-1940
Egon Schiele. Standing woman in striped stockings 1913
The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964
The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964
Annabelle Guetatra. Red tears 2021. Serie Despite the night
The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923
The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923
The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923
Vincenzo Galdi. Nude with flowers 1900s
« I often have this strange and penetrating dream
Of an unknown woman, whom I love, and who loves me
And who is, each time, neither quite the same
Nor quite another, and loves me and understands me. » (Paul Verlaine)
Egon Schiele. Young girl sitting with a bow in her hair 1917
Marcel Meys. Nude with bunch of grapes 1910
Marcel Meys. Young woman playing the flute 1915. Autochrome
Marcel Meys. Young woman in a field 1915. Autochrome
“The supreme seduction is not to express one’s feelings. It is to make one suspect them.” (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)
The actress Leni Riefenstahl in Der heilige berg (Sacred mountain) directed by Arnold Fanck in 1926
Egon Schiele. Mother and child 1910
“The bloody osmoses of dream and love occupy the entire life of man.” (Salvador Dali)
Judith in den Bosch. Breaking the waves
Egon Schiele. Portrait of the actress Marga Boerner 1917
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1910
Katie Eleanor. Dear one becomes a tumour 2019
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1913
« This melancholy that women have who have sought happiness and found only love. » (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)
Egon Schiele. Poldi Lodzinsky 1910
Egon Schiele. Procession 1911
« I was going away, my fists in my burst pockets;
My overcoat also became ideal;
I was going under the sky, Muse! and I was your faithful;
Oh! there! there! what splendid loves I have dreamed!
My only breeches had a large hole.
And I listened to them, sitting at the edge of the roads,
Those good September evenings when I felt drops
Of dew on my forehead, like a wine of vigor;
Where, rhyming in the middle of fantastic shadows,
Like lyres, I pulled the elastics
Of my wounded shoes, one foot near my heart! » (Arthur Rimbaud)
Egon Schiele. Reclining nude woman with red garters 1913
Egon Schiele. Woman with dress up 1911
Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910
Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910
Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910
Anonymous photographer. Scorpio stockings 1940
Kārlis Padegs. Madonna with a white flower 1933
« The dream, a treacherous snake hatched in the down,
Rolls a flattering fetter around my arms,
On my lips distills a philter in its drool,
And amuses me with the changing colors it takes on.
Since it emerged from under my bedside,
My blood slides frozen like warm lava,
Its knots make me captive and its looks a slave,
And I live as if some other person in me lived.
But soon I knew the pain of its caress;
In vain I writhe under its weight that oppresses me,
I fall back and cannot free myself from it.
Its tooth seeks my heart, turns it over and gnaws at it;
And, all entangled in shreds of dream,
I die. — Oh heavy monster! who are you? » (René-François Sully Prudhomme, L’ennui)
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman 1910
Egon Schiele. Conversion II 1913
Egon Schiele. Reclining woman bending head 1913
Crafty Dogma. The septic tank. Collage
Egon Schiele. Nude woman holding her right leg 1917
George Hoyningen-Huen. Hat for Harper’s Bazaar 1939
Egon Schiele. Nude woman with raised arms 1913
Paul Cava. From the Denise serie
“It is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.” (Charles Bukowski)
Percy Smith. Birth of a flower 1910
Dancer Sofia Fedorova as Khita in The pharaoh’s daughter 1909
« I am anchored in the roots of your lands, in each of your births. » (DantéBéa)
Arthur E. Morton. Cypres Morpho 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterfly 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterflies 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterfly 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterflies 1900s. Autochrome
« …Deep, magical charm, which intoxicates us
In the present the past restored!
Thus the lover on an adored body
From memory gathers the exquisite flower… » (Charles Baudelaire, The perfume)
Egon Schiele. Man and woman 1911
Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1912
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